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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- add another to Mammoths working mines. Salt Lake County. WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. Bingham Bulletin: J. C. Anderson, A. W. Hagblum and John Carlson, working a lease on a group of claims in Porcupine gulch belonging to a Salt Lake company, recently cleared out an old tunnel in one of the claims and began drifting from it north and south, following a vein. In the south drift is opened up twelve Inches of good ore, mixed with quality silver-lea- d in and the north drift is a h quartz, six-inc- streak of the same character. The boys have out over thirty tons of high-grad- e shipping ore, and are feeling pretty good. The Atlantic tunnel is being driven about eight feet per day, being now in over 200 feet. It is to be run 1800 feet, and expected to tap three parallel veins in Atlantic ground the first at 700 feet. These veins have been opened by shafts, which have been sunk to considerable depths, but had to be abandoned on account of water. When this is remedied by the drain tunnel, the Atlantic property will be extensively developend. The first vein will be tapped at 350 feet depth. Owing to the material reduction in smelter charges many properties in this district are paying better than when silver and lead were quoted much higher a fact which is the cause of a number of mines preparing to start up this spring that were Idle last year. Matters are very lively at Lead mill station. Arrivals of ore from the Dalton & Lark by tram are insteadily we learn it is the increasing, and tention of the management to bring up the shipments in March to 200 daily. big COTTONWOOD. The South Fork Consolidated company is now working three men on development, and shipments may be made during the present season. The property produces a most desirable smelting ore, carrying 50 to CO per cent lead, and running well in silver. The company has expended about $3000 on development work. Washington County. The great sandstone reef that sur- prised geologists by producing fourteen million dollars worth of silver is still being worked by chloriders, men who explore the workings of the old mines for little pockets of rich ore that have been overlooked, and some of them are earning much more than wages. Mr. R. C. Lund of St. George, who was in Salt Lake last week, reports discoveries in the Thompson mine of large bodies of sandstone that carry from forty to sixty ounces in silver. The reef, he believes, is not half worked out, and were silver $1 an ounce Silver Reef would be a very lively camp. The Barbee & Walker custom mill will soon be started up on one of its periodical runs for the purpose of treating the sandstone taken out by the chloriders. p This is a mill, but so soft is the rock that it crushes fifty tons per day, and the run usually lasts about six weeks. There are two other mills in the district, but they have been idle for years. The richest of the Silver Reef mines have been worked out down to the water level, and could some economical method for the ground be devised they draining might still be profitably operated. A project to generate electric power in the Rio Virgin river, six miles distant, and transmit it to Silver Reef for the operation of electric pumps has been under consideration, but it is doubtfu 1 whether anything will be done while silver remains at the present figure. five-stam- Deseret iMillard County. Blade: correspondence Nephi lrns locality has been jerked out of its somnolent just boots by the report that Cass Hite and a small army of prospectors have invaded the foothills of the southern extremity of the Saw- - 9 MINING REVIEW. N Tooth range, fifty miles southeast of here, and have struck rich placers and have plastered- - several hundred acres with location notices. The latest from Detroit district is to the effect that the Messrs. Crafts Bros, have made a fine strike of gold ore and will make a shipment next week. Also ore vein of high-grad- e that a four-fohas been developed on the Copperhead, owned by Payson men. It is believed the coming season will witness considerable activity in' that camp. group to greater depth, and to do so it is necessary to sink from the adit level. Complete arrangements are not yet made as to details. Sinking is expected to commence as soon as the new upraise to No. 3 is finished a distance of but sixty or seventy feet. The Morning Star mine has been released by the miners for a couple of weeks, pending final settlement. We cable is on learn that a new 1000-fothe road and that the shaft will be ore is sunk deeper. Some high-grad- e being extracted. Sanpete County. Ephraim Enterprise: Ephraim is enjoying a genuine gold excitment. Every one who can spare the time, and a great many who can not, are prospect-A ing in the mountains west of town. great many locations have been made and development work is being pushed as rapidly as possible. Some of the claims show good gold rock. The excitement continues to increase, and prospectors from the outside are beginning to put in an appearance. Lemhi County. Gibbonsville Miner: In the face of the A. D. & M. companys tunnel No. 2 east, some 800 feet from the mouth, they have struck a great body of ore that is all of five feet wide. It is about 700 feet below the top of the mountain, and the new strike gives them further assurance that they have a great mine. There is enough ore in sight to last a long time and the work of de- ot ot velopment is being prosecuted with vigor. IDAHO. Lemhi Republic: C. E. Rives, secretary of the Gold Dust Mining company of Leesburg, arrived Saturday Ada Cou lty. from the East, night. He is Boise Statesman: Andrew J. Power, where he has recently some time on been for better known as Kentuck, has sold business connected with his company. his Daisy mine in the Neal district to He informs us that a twenty-stam- p Coloradoans represented by Mr. Hig- mill has been ordered, and the indicagins for $2500. It was a cash transactions are that an active and profitable tion. The Daisy joins Charles Bal-bac- seasons work is Homestake. It is but a pros- valuable property. before them on this pect, but Mr. Higgins believes it will develop into fully as valuable property as the Homestake. Bear Lake County. to Bledsoe Capt. yesterday brought Examiner: It has come to the Mining Exchange samples of ore theMontpelier lately that a mining boom from Willow Creek to be placed on ex- will surface be samsprung on the people of Monthibition. Among the lot were in the spring. The new discovery ples from the Checkmate mine taken pelier not over is ten miles from this city, from the two and a half foot streak, four inches of which assays from $1500 and consists of free milling gold ore. to $6000 a ton, the remainder being The surface indications are good and high-grad- e milling ore. There was a the outlook bright. We hope it will all sample of $30 ore from the Black Crook. prove true, and that Nounan, St. Charles, Garden City and a dozen other $100 ore from the Blue Bird or Kentuck, $900 ore from the Birthday, $100 ore camps will show up some good propfrom the Judas, and ore of good grade erties by the winter of 1896. from the Lone Pine, Ireton and Sacramento. NEVADA. Capt. Bledsoe is in from Williow Creek with much important informaDe Lamar Lode: Work on the De tion respecting the mines of that disLamar an over inspectrict. He has recently made companys new pipe-lin- e tion of a large number of properties the Flagstaff hill is being pushed ahead and much of the pipe is already and found them all looking well. was the on the ground. From the present apAmong the properties visited Black Crook on Rock creek. It shows pearance of things, our town will not ten feet of ore that averages over $30 suffer for want of water the coming twensummer. per ton. The owners have drifted cross-cfrom the on the feet The Spring valley mining excitement ledge ty and the ore body maintains its char- is still spreading southward. Joseph acter. The Blue Bucket, in the same Delmue was in town during the week ore, the after supplies with which to prosecute vicinity, shows a fine body ofton. The work on the find he recently made near best of which runs $100 per Lone Pine, half a mile from the mouth Flatnose, and from which he got fair of Rock creek, has sixteen inches of assay returns. high-grad- e ore. The old Ireton mine four-foA vein having has considerable work done upon it, been promising in encountered the Ann, E. and there is much good mineral devel- P. Swindler, C. E., arrivedSally here Friday oped. from Pioche, and commenced The Ida mine, owned by H. W. Dor- evening the work of surveying the same on man, shows from fifteen to twenty feet Saturday morning. of ore, and at several points along the Rice and Nelson Millett, owners mineral has been dis- ofHy ledge high-grad- e Utah Spur mine, took a run the closed. to down Panaca and vicinity this week. On the Willow Creek side is the LeDe The company now have a has been run that little over Lamar viathan, a cross-c200 names on their pay-rol- l. has opened another ledge forty feet A night and day shift was put to from the other. The owners expect to work on the Sunbeam yesterday. make another mill run at once. The The work of enlarging the De Lamar first ore that they milled did not pay mill is being pushed very rapidly. expenses; the next did just pay out; Carson Tribune: Senator Skaggs of the next yielded $22 per ton, and the Elko county received a letter from lot now ready for the mill is expected to return $00 per ton. This illustrates home on Wednesday, in which he was the manner in which the ledges In the informed that Charley Born had made a rich strike in one of his mines at Bald Mountain, just over the line In Owyhee County. White Pine, and that he intended to Superintendent put thirty men at work immediately. Idaho Avalanche: The Senator says that in his opinion Hutchinson, who recently returned comBald Mountain is destined to be one from a visit to the Trade Dollar at of office Pa., the richest and liveliest mining Pittsburg, panys home the decided by camps in the State. says that it has been management to put in an electric plant at at the mill in the spring for power has Go to Harris & Wilson the mine and for illumination. It been deemed advisable to extend the For Fire, Life and Accident Insurance. development work on the Trade Dollar American companies only represented. hs ut . ot ut |